European Workshop
Perspectives of Web 2.0 for Citizenship Education in Europe
7 - 9 April 2011
Brno, Czech Republic
Project Fact Sheet
Workshop 1: “Web 2.0 and Citizenship in Europe”
Section
Indications of content
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Title of the project
Global Citizen
The World’s First Comprehensive Open Innovation Platform for
Global Solutions
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Main topics (select 5
max.)
Global Citizen focuses on shaping globalisation based on a
citizen-to-citizen approach.
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Objectives of the project
(250 words)
Global Citizen will be developed into the world’s first “3-in-1”
platform for generating global solutions. It is all about sharing
knowledge, building networks and generating solutions. Global
Citizen is supported by the European Commission and others and
currently involves the participation of more than 100 people
(primarily students) from more than 25 countries.
In the years to come we need to find and organise 1.000 of the
world’s most knowledgeable and engaged students that will be in
charge of editing our +2.000 topics on “globalisation”. Thus, they
will provide the knowledge base and become the core of the
network that will make a full-fledged innovation platform possible.
Eventually, Global Citizen will consist of these three platforms:
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How would you describe
the impact of your
project for citizenship
education and citizens`
participation in politics
and society
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Innovation platform that can handle thousands of inputs on
thousands of issues. The aim is to tackle the present
innovation deficit.
Network platform that can organize thousands of contacts,
their relations and their competences. The aim is to tackle
the present network confusion.
Knowledge platform that contains all key categories
embedded in “globalisation”. The aim is to tackle the
present information overload.
We believe that co-creative innovation still has its best to offer.
We firmly believe that is possible to engage students from all over
the world in a citizen-to-citizen research on globalisation – thereby
paving the way to generating global solutions to the benefit of
everyone involved.
Of course this cannot be done overnight, but we have already
witnessed that students are very interested in taking part in an
endeavour where they are the ones producing something others
can make use of. Too often students have been asked to
passively consume what others have produced. This is not our
approach at Global Citizen. We have a citizen-to-citizen approach
where it is ourselves as citizens that engage and teach other
citizens – and vice versa.
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Target groups
We expect our users to be found in business, politics and civil
society (including academia, NGOs and others) that are engaged
in solving global problems and turning global possibilities into
reality. In short, our target group are fellow citizens that have a
fact-based world view and believe that we need to do better in
combining market and politics and also develop new products and
new businesses under the headline profit, people, planet.
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Social Media Formats/
Project Methods used
during the project
Range and sustainability
of the project (local,
regional, national)
Global Citizen is a website that rests on the many-to-many
communication concept that also lies at the core of web 2.0
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Global Citizen is – as the name suggests – global. We are 100%
non-profit and expect our future income to come from public and
private foundations as well as from companies interested in
working with profit, people, planet.
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Project results
Global Citizen’s first platform (the knowledge platform) is up and
running including more than 2.000 topics. We are now working on
filling in the content and we have started out by focusing on our
113 Energy topics. We have managed to solve all key technical
obstacles and are now running an organisation with more than 30
students and employees on the payroll.
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Contact information
(first name, surname,
postal address, name of
organisation, e-mail
address, phone)
Søren Winther Lundby
J.P. Larsens Vej 18
8220 Brabrand, DENMARK
Phone: +45 40 27 60 64
E-mail: swl@globalcitizen.net
www.globalcitizen.net
Please do also take a look
http://screencast.com/t/NNBR0JAy
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